Originally posted by karajorma
This is just too funny.
Yes it is, and i am laughing my behind off with it!!
Just cause you're opposed to node blockades doesn't mean your opponents have to be.
Sure, but i am not forced to storm them, am i? Besides, haven´t you ever heard of mines? You know, those little things that go boom when you step on them? Why should i spend my valuable ships protecting a node (and risk loosing them), if i can just assign a couple of minelayers to swamp the place with the stuff?
And also, what good is a blockade, if your target jumps away 5 seconds after coming through the node? We´ve seen it happen many times, a huge fleet just waiting for the enemy, and then they just let them slip by... It´s not like there is some sort of gentlemen´s pact that forbides your enemy of escaping your little trap, is there?
There are lots of ways to skin a rabbit, you know?
Let me give you a real FS2 situation. The NTF captured the three systems of Polaris, Regulus and Sirius. How the f**k do you think they'd defend them? Do you really think Bosch would be so stupid as to not defend the nodes heavily? Do you really think that if the GTVA forces had carriers he'd piss away his advantage by allowing those carriers to enter his systems, deploy their fighters and only then engage them? Do you think he'd do that just cause you don't like node blockades?
I don´t give a damn to how Bosch would defend anything. I only giv a damn to how I would. You understand? No one said carriers should be the only ship available to any given fleet, it´s you and others who assumed it by yourselfs. All we are saying is that a dedicated carrier is stronger than a destroyer, and that´s all.
Destroyers have their place, but so should carriers. Otherwise, why would they even bother to have fighterbays in a destroyer??
Remember this little rule of thumb: You can only win a war if you kill your opponent. Waiting in a node for him to POSSIBLY come
through there, is a bad policy. While you station your fleet in one node, i could be attacking your supply routes in another.
Also, a node blockade only works if your enemy is on another system. If they are already inside the system, what good is a blockade?
And you realize how many nodes there are in the FS universe? Are you gonna station a fleet in each one of them? Somehow i don´t think you would have enough ships...